Saturday, October 12, 2013

Jalāl
ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى), also known as
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), and more popularly in
the English-speaking world simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17
December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and
Sufi mystic. Rumi's works are written in Persian and his Mathnawi
remains one of the purest literary glories of Persia, and one of the
crowning glories of the Persian language. Rumi was not just a poet, but also an influential Sufi figure in his day. As a prominent Sufi, Rumi strongly opposed to worshiping the mind and senses in determining the truth.